Lampe told animal inspectors she’d ‘vomited up’ the heads after swallowing them because she wanted to keep them. She used scissors and a knife to decapitate the animals.

She pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to the snakes contrary to the 2006 Animal Welfare Act and was given a four-month jail term, suspended for two years, when she appeared at Telford Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.

Lampe, who was also banned from keeping animals for five years, had drank the lager as well as shots of amaretto and whisky when she committed the acts on April 8.

Jennifer Lampe arrives at Telford Magistrates’ Court in Shropshire to be sentenced for beheading her two pet snakes. (Picture: PA)

The offender told the court she chopped the heads off the boa constrictor and ball python, at her sister’s home in Church Stretton, Shropshire, because she expected to be made homeless and would be unable to look after them.